CHENNAI, India, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of 14 Indian workers rescued from borewell digging companies during the coronavirus lockdown in south India have received a rare payout ...

ONGOLE: The State government has issued orders imposing a ban on digging new bore wells and extracting groundwater in a total of 258 villages across the State as per the AP Water, Land and Trees Act ...

Bengaluru: In split-screen data on groundwater table, Karnataka has registered a slight improvement in groundwater recharge in 2025. At the same time, it has seen a worrying rise in industrial ...

Mumbai, Drilling of an unauthorised borewell in south Mumbai by a private water supplier earlier this month led to a small breach in a tunnel of Aqua Line, the only underground Metro corridor in the ...

A four-year-old boy, Gurkaran Singh, fell into a borewell in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district and was rescued safely after a nine ...

ADILABAD: Villagers in parts of the erstwhile Adilabad district have begun collecting voluntary contributions to dig borewells amid an early onset of drinking water scarcity in tribal and riverbank ...

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made prior permission for digging borewells in the state capital mandatory for both commercial and residential users. A decision to this ...

After the water leakage incident near Khadak Police Station, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has made it mandatory for residents and developers to obtain permission before undertaking borewell ...

Hydrogeologist Devaraj Reddy urges farmers to recharge existing borewells instead of drilling new ones for sustainable water ...